Updated
les June 22, 2011
Youth Ministry Reading Room
Documents of interest to youth ministry leaders.
- NCR Study of Catholics in America (October 2011).
- Survey of Parish Catechetical Leaders from NIAC (September 2011).
- New report on the ordination class of 2011 from CARA, noting the impact of youth ministry leaders and NCYC on vocation to the priesthood
(136 KB) (June 2011) - New report on the latest NSYR research on emerging adults and catechesis: A Faithful Challenge: A Longitudinal Analysis of the National Study on Youth and Religion Sample of Catholic Adolescents and Emerging Adults in Light of the Outcomes of Adolescent Catechesis (8.55MB) (6/8/11)
- Message from Pope Benedict XVI for the 26th World Youth Day (2011)
- Catholicism on Campus: Stability and Change in Catholic student faith by college type (184KB) (February 2010)
By Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate - Religion and Spirituality on the Path Through Adolescence, is the latest report on adolescents in the United States based on the second wave of NSYR survey data (2/25/09)
- Sacraments Today: Belief and Practice among U.S. Catholics (1.4 MB) (5/13/08)
By Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate 
U.S. Religious Landscape Survey (5/13/08)
By the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life- Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship: A Call to Political Responsibility from the Catholic Bishops of the United States. (188 KB)
- Catholic Update: A Look at Pope Benedict's Encyclical: Christ Our Hope
- Doctrinal Elements of a Curriculum Framework for the Development of Catechetical Materials for Young People of High School Age (351 KB)
- Executive Summary of the 2007 National Symposium on Lay Ecclesial Ministry
- Stewardship and Teenagers: The Challenge of Being a Disciple (84 KB)